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Date:      Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:14:36 +0800
From:      David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: amd64 cpu_switch in C.
Message-ID:  <47D758AC.2020605@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080310161115.X1091@desktop>
References:  <20080310161115.X1091@desktop>

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Jeff Roberson wrote:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~jeff/amd64.diff

This is a good idea. In fact, according to calling conversion, some 
registers are not needed to be saved across function call, e.g on
i386, eax, edx, and ecx. :-) but gdb may need them to dig out
stack variable's value.

Regards,
David Xu




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